Mildly Infuriating

He's impulsive and doesn't know when to shut up. I got the distinct impression that, initially, he was absolutely not serious about buying Twitter. It was a joke/jest. BUT, because his antics affected their stock price he actually got forced into the purchase and now he's desperately trying to figure out how to make the purchase worth what he actually paid, which is fine and all, except he seems to be leading by impulse, not by consensus or logic. He wakes up in the morning, has some random ass idea and implements it without any oversight. Even his new CEO straight up admitted that she is basically a straw man CEO who will offer no friction to anything Elon wants to do.

That would be the most incredible thing if Elon’s plan was just to destroy Twitter from the inside. Pipe dream I know.

Speaking as someone who never really plugged into Twitter much in the first place: the notion that tweets have any sort of real value and that putting caps on consuming them is a meaningful control measure is the funniest fucking thing. Like no doubt he I actually trying to ruin it, that's happening. But this is clearly supposed to elicit some kind of reaction, and I just can't imagine feeling like, "oh, no, this only 600?" 600 of what? Brainfarts? Serious ideas that, if they were written by serious people would be in a long form medium? It's like saying "you can go to the grocery store but you can only buy 60 chew toys for your dog per day". Like, okay, I wasn't going to do that anyway and I think it's funny that you thought I was going to, or that I'd care about this new limitation.

Man, no one is trying to run anything into the ground. They are just probing to see how far they can stretch their userbases. And, personally, I think they can go as far as they want. Social media has become an addiction for people and they will justify anything and everything to get their fix .

EDIT: What I mean is that people will accept everything and still continue to use the platforms because they are ingrained into their daily lives. Do you disagree? Need I remind you how vehemently some people defended Reddit's decisions recently?

That would be the most incredible thing if Elon’s plan was just to destroy Twitter from the inside. Pipe dream I know.

Can someone explain to me how this is a bad thing? Honestly asking. To me, it just seems like a decent way to reduce bot activity.

Update: Ok, good points.

If Musk destroys Twitter, I will hang his portrait right next to Papa Stalin's in my room. Twitter delenda est.

That would be the most incredible thing if Elon’s plan was just to destroy Twitter from the inside. Pipe dream I know.

I only use twitter to share gameplays and screenshots from my PS4 :) I don't care what elon decides to do.

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